Kiri Lee
List of John Benjamins publications in which Kiri Lee is involved.
2023 Grammaticalization in progress: Differing patterns of Korean and Japanese plurality Asian Languages and Linguistics 4:1, pp. 48–75 | Article
Korean and Japanese are typical classifier languages that classify a noun based on the semantic type of its referent with a counter word when plurality is involved. Their plural marking appears to be optional when the noun denotes general plurality, but obligatory when a noun is marked by the… read more
2015 Social meanings of honorific / non-honorific alternations in Korean and Japanese Honorific language and linguistic politeness in Korean, Whitman, John and Lucien Brown (eds.), pp. 207–241 | Article
The use of honorifics in Korean and Japanese is generally dictated by social factors such as age, status, and gender (Sohn 1999, Kuno 1987). Honorifics are marked by a well-defined repertoire of linguistic elements, including address-terms, specialized vocabulary, and verbal suffixes. Depending on… read more
2013 Beyond ‘power and solidarity’: Indexing intimacy in Korean and Japanese terms of address Korean Linguistics 15:1, pp. 73–100 | Article
This study examines the nominal address terms in Korean and Japanese and argues that the notion of ‘Intimacy’ plays a crucial role in choosing an appropriate nominal address term in both languages. In the past several decades, a long list of researchers working in diverse languages have evaluated… read more
2006 Territory of information theory and emotive expressions in Japanese: A case observed in s hiranai and w akaranai Emotive Communication in Japanese, Suzuki, Satoko (ed.), pp. 191–207 | Article
1999 Relative tense and absolute tense in adverbial adjuncts in Japanese Function and Structure: In honor of Susumu Kuno, Kamio, Akio and Ken-ichi Takami (eds.), pp. 215–250 | Article